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Danger for 2013

danarhea

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It looks like Romney is toast. It also looks like the GOP is going to lose their bid to take back the Senate. Now the Democrats are crowing that they are going to hand the Speaker's gavel back to Pelosi.

Here is the danger. Yes, we have had gridlock in Washington, and unlike many here, I believe that gridlock is a good thing. So I am clinging to the hope that Republicans will keep their grip on the House, and that gridlock will continue. Because with Democrats in charge of all 3 branches, hell will break loose with their agenda. So far, I put the odds of the Dems taking back the House at about 5:1 against, but you never know. If the GOP can keep the House, then there will be good news for them in 2014. Enough Democrats will be in peril that Republicans can take back the Senate that year too. Even more gridlock.

Yes, I want to see Republicans beaten badly this year, so that sane people can take the party back from the fruitcakes that infested it. But I don't want to hand everything over to the Democrats either. This is why we at least need to keep the House in the hands of the GOP.

Final note: Things are falling apart for the GOP, and you can pin just about all of it on Romney, the worst pick the Republican Party could have made this year; much worse than McCain in 2008.

So what do you think?
 
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It looks like Romney is toast. It also looks like the GOP is going to lose their bid to take back the Senate. Now the Democrats are crowing that they are going to hand the Speaker's gavel back to Pelosi.

Here is the danger. Yes, we have had gridlock in Washington, and unlike many here, I believe that gridlock is a good thing. So I am clinging to the hope that Republicans will keep their grip on the House, and that gridlock will continue. Because with Democrats in charge of all 3 branches, hell will break loose with their agenda. So far, I put the odds of the Dems taking back the House at about 5:1 against, but you never know. If the GOP can keep the House, then there will be good news for them in 2014. Enough Democrats will be in peril that Republicans can take back the Senate that year too. Even more gridlock.

So what do you think?

I think things stay largely as they are. Until Democrats and Republicans can learn to play nicely, we're ****ed anyway.
 
I like Gridlock.


Anytime either party has had both Houses and the Oval Office, the results have been bad.


Extremism of any sort rarely leads to positive outcomes.
 
It looks like Romney is toast. It also looks like the GOP is going to lose their bid to take back the Senate. Now the Democrats are crowing that they are going to hand the Speaker's gavel back to Pelosi.

Here is the danger. Yes, we have had gridlock in Washington, and unlike many here, I believe that gridlock is a good thing. So I am clinging to the hope that Republicans will keep their grip on the House, and that gridlock will continue. Because with Democrats in charge of all 3 branches, hell will break loose with their agenda. So far, I put the odds of the Dems taking back the House at about 5:1 against, but you never know. If the GOP can keep the House, then there will be good news for them in 2014. Enough Democrats will be in peril that Republicans can take back the Senate that year too. Even more gridlock.

Yes, I want to see Republicans beaten badly this year, so that sane people can take the party back from the fruitcakes that infested it. But I don't want to hand everything over to the Democrats either.

So what do you think?

I think that Republican, Democrat, or mixed control will result in very similar systems. Gridlock can be a good thing when the government is already running well enough and does not require any further expansion. However, when the necessity arises to scale government back, gridlock is a bad thing. Devastating in general (regardless of grid lock) if neither party is interested in scaling back.
 
No gridlock in 2013. A republican House and Senate along with a republican President. We'll actually have a budget again.
 
There is virtually no chance that the Dems will have unfettered control. If they manage to hold onto the Senate majority it will be a smaller majority than they have now, and thus Republicans would continue to block whatever they want to block by abusing the filibuster rules as they have been for the past six years.
 
There is virtually no chance that the Dems will have unfettered control. If they manage to hold onto the Senate majority it will be a smaller majority than they have now, and thus Republicans would continue to block whatever they want to block by abusing the filibuster rules as they have been for the past six years.

Not this time. Harry Reid is talking about filibuster reform, and it would not be the first time it was ever done.
 
I like the fact that President Obama will possibly pick two Supreme Court justices and possibly switching it from a 5-4 conservative advantage to a 4-5 liberal to a moderate advantage.
 
It looks like Romney is toast. It also looks like the GOP is going to lose their bid to take back the Senate. Now the Democrats are crowing that they are going to hand the Speaker's gavel back to Pelosi.

Here is the danger. Yes, we have had gridlock in Washington, and unlike many here, I believe that gridlock is a good thing. So I am clinging to the hope that Republicans will keep their grip on the House, and that gridlock will continue. Because with Democrats in charge of all 3 branches, hell will break loose with their agenda. So far, I put the odds of the Dems taking back the House at about 5:1 against, but you never know. If the GOP can keep the House, then there will be good news for them in 2014. Enough Democrats will be in peril that Republicans can take back the Senate that year too. Even more gridlock.

Yes, I want to see Republicans beaten badly this year, so that sane people can take the party back from the fruitcakes that infested it. But I don't want to hand everything over to the Democrats either. This is why we at least need to keep the House in the hands of the GOP.

Final note: Things are falling apart for the GOP, and you can pin just about all of it on Romney, the worst pick the Republican Party could have made this year; much worse than McCain in 2008.

So what do you think?

I agree that both houses should not go to one party. And you are right about Romney. The republicans didn't want him but given who else was running he was the only pick that had a chance of winning. He certainly has proved them right. His chances are fading everyday.
 
Yes, we have had gridlock in Washington, and unlike many here, I believe that gridlock is a good thing.
Democrats reaching super majority in the Senate, which just isn’t going to happen, is the only way to avoid ‘gridlock’.
 
Not this time. Harry Reid is talking about filibuster reform, and it would not be the first time it was ever done.
Quote?

I think he lacks the stomach (or whatever body part is required) to do it.
 
Not this time. Harry Reid is talking about filibuster reform, and it would not be the first time it was ever done.

Yeah, he talked about it last year, too. And did nothing.
 
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